The Under One Umbrella Society (formerly known as the Grandview Woodlands Drug and Alcohol Coalition) is pleased to announce Under One Umbrella 2010, our third annual service fair for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in East Vancouver. Please find attached the poster and wallet card for the event. We have printed posters ready to go and will be asking outreach workers in the community to hand out wallet cards during the week leading up to the event.

This year’s event will be on Saturday, January 16th from 10 am to 3 pm at the Maritime Labour Centre. We have around 40 service providers booked to attend this year’s event with a focus on direct service provision on site (see the poster for a list of just some of the services that will be there this year). Something new this year is mini skill-building workshops throughout the day. Some examples will be a women’s safety training workshop by PACE, tenants rights workshop by TRAC and an employment search workshop by Pathways. Of course, our event always includes free clothing, lots of delicious and healthy food and entertainment too.

Please post and forward to those you think might be interested. If you’re interested in volunteering or if you have any questions, please contact Damian, our event coordinator at uousociety@gmail.com

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone.For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith Twitter.com/AprilFilms or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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In this video, Al Tkatch of AHA MEDIA talks about his first time trying the famous burger with onions from Jimmy’s Lunch

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

In this video, Henry BBQ Chicken prepares the BBQ for the roasted chicken

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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Below are videos of the RCMP Musical Ride and their last show at the PNE Agrodome for 2009

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The Highlight of the Musical Ride is “THE CHARGE!”

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The RCMP Musical Ride march to a Regimental song and National Anthem “O Canada” for their last show at the PNE 2009

All RCMP Musical Ride videos were filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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“Those Little Donuts are simply irresistible and delicious!

Below is a link to where our PNE favorite are now trans-fat-free mini-doughnuts!

Taking the guilt out of mini doughnuts

VANCOUVER – Vancouver is a health-conscious city. Which is why Steve Johnson has chosen our city’s Pacific National Exhibition to unveil a revolutionary advance in fast food: trans-fat-free mini-doughnuts.

AHA MEDIA is very proud to have Alvin Clayton – a First Nations Nisgaa elder as part of our Vancover Downtown Eastside ( DTES) Community Reporting team.

AHA MEDIA first met Alvin at the Upwords Magazine group http://www.upwordsmagazine.wordpress.com at LifeSkills Centre and after seeing his preparation, dedication and Aboriginal governance skills to his unique style of reporting on homeless and health issues, we were happy to invite Alvin to join AHA MEDIA. :)

AHA MEDIA is dedicated to helping all our communities become more informed!

This was flung over the Granville street bridge. A bag of of human feces, ladies and gentlemen. Yup, that is what the residents of the Granville street bridge area have resorted to…

It is important that we all understand that this is not a random act of vandalism or teenage hi-jinx… This is hate. Pure and simple. Xenophobic and gentrified in it’s intent. There are people living in the best rated city in the world flinging shit at people trying to survive in the shelters below. But, as you will see, they are at war to stay open against those very inconspicuous Fecal Fiends….